A mentor for many in the renewable energy world, Jane Weissman, who directs the Interstate Renewable Energy Council, is widely celebrated for her commitment to clean energy development and education. She is a leader in the effort to establish quality training and certification programs for tomorrow's renewable energy workforce.

Few people know solar energy like Vote Solar's Executive Director Adam Browning. In one moment, you'll find Adam talking about the benefits and wonders of solar energy and in the next you'll see him standing in front of a state public utilities commission talking about complex energy policy. In today's conversation, Adam discusses Vote Solar, how he got into the solar field, and what's on the horizon for his team and the solar industry in the United States.

In this episode, we talk with Tom Philpott, senior food and agriculture writer for Grist.org. Tom is also a founding member of Maverick Farms located in Valle Crucis, North Carolina. This is an interview from our online series, Our Heroes, on the Ecocentric blog (www.ecocentricblog.org).

In this episode, we talk with Michael E. "Aquadoc" Campana, Professor of Geosciences at Oregon State University, hydrogeologist, hydrophilanthropist and prolific blogger. Listen to him talk about his career path, the world water crisis and what people are doing to solve it. This is an interview from our online series, Our Heroes, on the Ecocentric blog.

Amy Hardberger, an assistant professor at St. Mary's School of Law, talked with us recently about water and energy policy, how the two are linked, the effects of the ongoing US drought and her path as a geologist, attorney, environmentalist and professor.

While visiting the Caribbean island of Tobago in 1996, the Dimin family saw fishermen haul in their bountiful catch using traditional methods, but with no market to sell the fish. The idea launched Sea to Table, cofounded by Sean Dimin and his father Michael. Sea to Table has since grown to partner with local fishermen from small-scale, sustainable wild fisheries from all over the United States and connects them directly with restaurants and chefs all across the country.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Jessica Yu has trained her lens on the world water crisis in her film Last Call at the Oasis, which illuminates the vital role water plays in our lives, exposes the defects in the current system and depicts communities already struggling with its ill-effects.